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Blue_Moon

About the Moon The moon has many different phases it goes through, for example: full, new, waning, and waxing moons. It takes the moon 29 1/2 days to go through all of it phases. There is a permanent shadow on the moon that never receives sunlight. The moons surface is less than one tenth of the earth, and about a quarter of the surface area. The pull of gravity at the moons surface is about 17 percent of that on the earth. The moon is in synchronous rotation, so it rotates on it axis the same time it takes to orbit the earth. The moon is 238,855 miles away from the earth. The moons birthday was approximatley 4.6 billion years ago. the crust of the moon is 37 miles deep. June 20, 1969 was a great day for Neil Armstrong, because he was the first man to land on the moon. There are many different types of moons. Some are the blue moon an dthe harvest moon. A blue moon is a full moon that is not timed to a regular monthly pattern. A blue moon only occurs every 2 or 3 years. Then, there is a harvest moon, and that is the area of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox. Many other moons are the wolf, snow, worm, pink, flower, strawberry, buck, sturgeon, harvest, hunters, beavers, and the cold moon.

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Moon Diagram


Interesting Facts




  • Radius- 1,079.6 miles.
  • Volume- 5.267 x 10^9 miles
  • Mass- 1.6186 x 10^23 pounds
  • Rotation- 27.32166 days
  • Distance from Earth- 238,855 miles
  • Rotates 10 mph
  • Has no global magnetic field.
  • 59% of the moon is visible from earth.
  • Temperature- 253 degrees farenheit to 451 degrees farenheit
  • The moon orbits at 2,300 mph







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Cresent Moon
First moon landing by Apollo 11 in 1969






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Harvest Moon


The Harvest moon is the period of fullness that is closest to the autumnal equinox.




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Moon Symbol

The moon represent awareness and subconscious mind. The subconscious mind stores our understood experiences and is responsible for re-creating from our thought forms which become our experinces.